[untenured]

Will they go on the Sabbath?

Don't know, but the Arabs once attacked on Yom Kippur, which makes all the gnashing of teeth we had in Afghanistan over whether we should observe a Ramadan truce look positively absurd.

[Reaganesque]

There's always the "ox in the mire" out. I would definitely say this situation would fall into that category, so, I wouldn't be surprised.